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the workers and peasants of the Caucasus, even if in bast shoes and bathing costumes, but with immediate and revolutionary swiftness gave You reinforcements in triple and quadruple quantities. Then increase tenfold agitation from aeroplanes for Polish workers and peasants, [explaining] that their capitalists are sabotaging peace and condemning them to purposeless bloodshed.

Lenin

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DIRECTIVES OF V. I. LENIN AND I. V. STALIN
ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST WRANGEL
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TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE
MEMORANDUM VIA DIRECT WIRE (CIPHER)
August 19, 1920

The impending continued fierce struggle with the White-Polish army makes it impossible for the Central Committee of the RCP to concentrate exclusive attention on the Wrangel front. It is necessary that the Central Committee of the CPU should take measures on its part to allocate a significant number of the best workers to the Wrangel front, workers capable of raising the combat capability of units, strengthening the rear, conducting the struggle against desertion, banditry in the immediate rear, and so forth. Report the measures undertaken to the Central Committee of the RCP.

Lenin. Stalin

Printed from a typewritten copy.

2260

TO THE CAUCASUS BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
MEMORANDUM VIA DIRECT WIRE (CIPHER)
August 19, 1920

There still lies ahead fierce struggle with the White-Poles. The Central Committee can therefore allocate to the Wrangel front only a limited number of workers. The Caucasus Bureau of the Central Committee must with the utmost strictness

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take account of and distribute forces, with the Wrangel front as the principal task. It is necessary to help strengthen the political department, the special department, the tribunals of the armies, to raise the combat capability of units by assigning the best Communists. Report the measures undertaken to the Central Committee.

Lenin. Stalin

Printed from a typewritten copy.

2260

TO THE SIBERIAN BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
MEMORANDUM VIA DIRECT WIRE (CIPHER)
August 19, 1920

The struggle with White Poland is far from concluded. The Wrangel front demands the greatest sacrifices. A winter campaign is possible. The Central Committee expects further intensive work from the Siberian Bureau and the Siberian Revolutionary Committee. We need volunteer formations outside the general assignments, especially cavalry units, even if in small units. We need cavalry horses, items of transport and so forth. Food supply work must under no circumstances weaken. Report the measures undertaken to the Central Committee.

Lenin. Stalin

Printed from a typewritten copy.

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RESOLUTION ON A LETTER FROM S. M. KIROV
August 24, 1920

Dear Vladimir Ilyich!

Your instructions I am fulfilling precisely. I think that You are sufficiently well informed from Chicherin's reports about affairs here, therefore I will not speak of this. Attached to this letter is an article from a Kemalist newspaper, characterizing "The Attitude of Muslims toward Bolshevism."